Dear Readers,
We are sending you a new issue of the NISPAcee Newsletter and, for the second time, this is in electronic format. NISPAcee has been publishing the quarterly Newsletter for 16 years and it has always been distributed to our members in hard copy form. During the latest developments in our organisation we have recognised the need to find new, more effective and innovative ways of communicating, not only with our members, but also with other partners and individuals. This new electronic version will allow us to reach a wider community of interested recipients and also promote the opportunities our organisation offers to a wider range of academicians and professionals. Another important reason for taking this decision is so that we can improve our green policy within the organisation.
We hope that you enjoy and welcome this new way of communicating and, of course, we would appreciate receiving any feedback on the second pilot issue of the e- Newsletter. This will help us to incorporate any suggestions you may have regarding its further improvement.

This issue will provide you with an extensive report of various activities implemented during the May NISPAcee Annual Conference. It was a great event very highly evaluated by the participants from the content as well as organizational point of view. I would like to express our gratitude to our local partner The National School of Public Administration, Warsaw, Poland, mainly to the Director Mr. Jacek Czaputowicz for all the commitments and an excellent support which has contributed substantively to the success of the conference.
I wish all of you nice and pleasant summer period.

Yours sincerely,
Ľudmila Gajdošová, NISPAcee Executive Director

Public Procurement in EU Member States: The Regulation of Contract Below the EU Thresholds and in Areas not Covered by the Detailed Rules of the EU Directives
Sigma Paper No. 45, 2010
Link: http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2010doc.nsf/linkto/gov-sigma(2010)1-rev1

NISPAcee books
Property Tax in Economies in Transition: Case Studies
Ed.: Lucie Sedmihradská
This volume presents ten country case studies, focused on property taxation from several points of view; first, the role of property tax in the national tax system and as a source of local government revenue is evaluated; second, the property tax incidence is discussed; third, the property tax procedure is described, and finally in some of the chapters, a case study of selected municipalities is presented. This standardised approach allows for a comparison of the situation in the individual countries.
Price: 10 EUR (plus postage)

Municipal Asset Management in CEE Countries: Selected Case Studies
Ed.: Lucie Sedmihradská
This publication is the outcome of the work of NISPAcee’s Working Group on Public Sector Finance and Accounting realised in 2008 and 2009. This Working Group focuses on quality comparative empirical research on financial and accounting practices in the public sector in central and eastern European countries. There are nine case studies from eight countries. The book should bring a richer understanding of such a complex issue as municipal asset management and that the combination of various data collection techniques, including interviews, observation or documentary analysis, and subsequent triangulation of collected data would ensure sufficient rigour of the findings and conclusions. At the same time, elaboration of a case study is feasible, even with limited resources, and it is flexible and appropriate for scholars from different backgrounds. Simultaneously, this approach allowed for the elaboration of more papers from the same country.
Price: 10 EUR (plus postage)

State and Administration in a Changing World
Selected Papers from the 17th NISPAcee Annual Conference, Budva 2009
Eds. Juraj Nemec, B. Guy Peters, 2009
The articles included in this book provide ample evidence of the transformations of the State, especially in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and, more especially, within public administration. Administrative reform has been a persistent theme in the practice of public administration and the articles in this volume demonstrate the importance of these changes within CEE countries, as well as more generally. These chapters also point to the importance of delivering public programmes efficiently and effectively. Several chapters discuss service delivery across a range of policy areas, and especially the need to coordinate and integrate those services to make them more beneficial to the population. The chapters concerned with health care demonstrate the importance of economic resources, as well as the more general problems of delivering public health services. The various chapters on accountability in this volume demonstrate the possibilities, and the difficulties, of creating accountable administration and responsible States.
Price: 15 EUR (plus postage)

Invitation to the 19th NISPAcee Annual Conference

Preliminary topic: Public Administration of the Future

May 19-22, 2011, Golden Sands, Varna, Bulgaria

Final main conference theme and the call for papers will be available on the NISPAcee website by August 15, 2010

Organised in cooperation with Varna Free University "Chernorizets Hrabar”, Varna, Bulgaria

All interested contributors are invited to submit their papers for consideration.
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